A lone crash along the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway in Ogun State on Thursday has reportedly claimed five lives while ten others were injured.
Afolabi Odunsi-Oyewole, the official spokesperson of the Ogun State command of the Federal Road Safety Corps made this disclosure in an official statement.
“The lone crash involved one white Mazda E2000 bus with registration number KRD809XC. A total of twenty persons were involved in the crash, comprising six adult males, eleven adult females, one male child, and two female children.
Out of the twenty persons involved, five persons were killed, comprising one adult male, two adult females, one male child, and one female child. Ten persons sustained varying degrees of injuries, while five persons escaped unhurt.”
The statement pin-pointed overloading and speeding as the cause of the accident, while also noting that the injured were moved to the hospital for medical attention.